1929 · drama · war
Arsenal
Directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko1h 33m1929
A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists. The story of the suppression of the Bolshevik uprising at the Arsenal factory in Kyiv by the Central Council troops.
Our read: Arsenal (1929) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / war, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- signature
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